NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Jack Conklin hasn't played in an NFL game yet, but that doesn't mean he hasn't faced pressure in his rookie season.

Take, for instance, the heated battles that go on between the offensive linemen and defensive linemen every day in training camp. He had one earlier this week with the "WWE belt' on the line.

Conklin, the team's first-round pick out of Michigan State, won his while working against edge rusher Derrick Morgan. It gave the whole unit bragging rights.

"Those situations I want to be in,'' he said. "It's the most game-like situation I think I am going to be in around practice. The pressure is on, and it's a game-is-on-the-line kind of thing. That's why you play football."

Conklin has settled in nicely for the Titans during his first NFL camp. He's worked with the first group at right tackle from Day One, and hasn't flinched.

"He's done a great job,'' quarterback Marcus Mariota said of Conklin. "He hasn't been overwhelmed too much as far as I've seen. He's come in and stepped up. Obviously everyone is going to have their mistakes. But he's learning from them and continuing to grow. We are going to need a lot of him out of that right tackle spot."

"Jack has been very solid, there's no question," coach Mike Mularkey said. "You wouldn't know he was a rookie."

Defenders have also been impressed.

"I think he is doing really well,'' Morgan said. "It is tough to come in as a rookie lineman, but he is holding his own. He has been consistent."

Offensive line coach Russ Grimm said Conklin remains a work in progress, but he also likes what he's seen.

"He is getting there,'' Grimm said. "Obviously he is not there yet, but Jack is a physical player and he is a smart guy but obviously he is a rookie. There's going to be some growing pains, but so far he has been making some good progress."

A 6-foot-6, 308-pounder, the Titans drafted Conklin with the eighth overall pick back in April. When veteran Byron Bell suffered a season-ending ankle injury during the offseason, Conklin went from splitting time to getting pretty much all the reps with the first-team unit, opposite left tackle Taylor Lewan.

Conklin has endured some teasing from Lewan, who went to rival Michigan.

But he's learned a great deal from him as well, he said.

"Taylor has been a big help for me, a guy who has gone through it,'' Conklin said. "He's a guy who I can really ask any question and he'll give me a good answer for it.

"Yeah, there's always a jab here or there (about Michigan State), but we are teammates, and we are Titans now, and that is what matters, the Titans winning."

Mularkey said he anticipates Conklin will make some mistakes as he grows as a player, but said they've been few and far between so far.

When the Titans open the preseason on August 13 against the Chargers, Conklin will be tested even more.

Conklin plans to be ready.

"I am starting to understand the offense better, and now it is less thinking, "I need to go here, or here','' Conklin said. "Now I can just move fast and get in the right position, and that's the point you want to be in, to move fast.

"The game is definitely faster at this level, and these guys are the best of the best. You have to be focused and locked in at all times. It goes from being one or two guys on the team to the entire defensive line, so you have to be on the top of your game.

"I am just going to keep working. It's my first camp and I hold myself to high standards and I want to be one of the best guys in the country at my position. I want to be in the right spot and know exactly what I am doing when the games come. But I am excited, and I am having fun."